All expiation synonyms

noun expiation

• compensation — Compensation is money that someone who has experienced loss or suffering claims from the person or organization responsible, or from the state.
• apology — An apology is something that you say or write in order to tell someone that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them.
• redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
• reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
• restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
• atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
• indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
• indemnity — protection or security against damage or loss.
• quittance — recompense or requital.
• recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
• reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
• requital — the act of requiting.
• restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
• satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
• penance — a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
• redemption — an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
• amends — recompense or compensation given or gained for some injury, insult, etc
• payment — something that is paid; an amount paid; compensation; recompense.
• propitiation — the act of propitiating; conciliation: the propitiation of the wrathful gods.
• donation — an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
• contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
• gift — gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
• alms — Alms are gifts of money, clothes, or food to poor people.
• beneficence — the act of doing good; kindness
• charity — A charity is an organization which raises money in order to help people who are sick, very poor, or who have a disability.
• oblation — the offering to God of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist.
• present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
• sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
• subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
• absolution — If someone is given absolution, they are forgiven for something wrong that they have done.
• contrition — deeply felt remorse; penitence
• forgiveness — act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
• penitence — the state of being penitent; regret for one's wrongdoing or sinning; contrition; repentance.
• remorse — deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
• repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
• retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
• attrition — Attrition is a process in which you steadily reduce the strength of an enemy by continually attacking them.
• compunction — If you say that someone has no compunction about doing something, you mean that they do it without feeling ashamed or guilty.
• confession — A confession is a signed statement by someone in which they admit that they have committed a particular crime.
• mortification — a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
• punishment — the act of punishing.
• purgation — the act of purging.
• rue — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
• ruth — George Herman ("Babe") 1895–1948, U.S. baseball player.
• self-flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
• shrift — the imposition of penance by a priest on a penitent after confession.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
• hair shirt — a garment of coarse haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance by ascetics and penitents.